Vast. Because it’s joyful, it feels like riding a bike, and it’s not up itself. And the soundtrack’s perfect, take me home, red travellinnnnnn socks. Even the obligatory crap dirt jump bit is watchable. Oh and it’s cheap on Itunes.
And Seasons of course- OK, so it’s a bit serious and polished, all pros doing the day job but you know what, when it’s this good I don’t mind- the final scene sets the benchmark for this sort of thing.
(we saw Follow Me in a double bill with Seasons… And I went away thinking Follow Me was dismal. Turns out it’s actually pretty good, it’s just that it was playing the exact same tune as Seasons, and not as well, it was completely outshone)
Ones that missed for me- Find. How did that happen? Roam was so good, Find is almost without redeeming features. How do you take Steve Peat, Danny Macaskill, Hans Rey and a helicopter and make something completely boring? Uncanny.
Lifecycles- there’s about 15 minutes of really nice riding in there but it’s drowned under the artschool project pish and it’s all in slow motion.
Inside Out- all polish, no charm. Train gaps are like drum solos, you can’t do 2 in a set. It just never got going.